Hellbourne is unliveable

Thursday 27 June 2024

The Economist most liveable cities index is balderdash:

There is no way known that Hellbourne is more livable than other Australian cities.

It is cold, angry, crime-ridden, getting poorer, has no economic potential, and is increasingly crush loaded in every dimension of life.

With a trajectory aimed at 9m people within twenty-five years, it will be the hell hole of the southern hemisphere.

I don’t know what The Economist is measuring but it sure ain’t Hellbourne!

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.